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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=320820#Comment_320820Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:40:42 -0600CK Burch
a while ago, and I thought I'd revive it myself. There's quite a few readers here on Whitechapel, but I'm among that there is a strong contingent of writers as well. Do you have books out? Can they be purchased? Tell us about yourself, your work, and where to get it.

I, myself, am an author, so I'll shamelessly start with my own work.

My first novel is titled The Icarus Void, and the short description is thus:

The crew of the Icarus is used to high-stress situations: their ship is designed to dive into the heart of a star to collect scientific data for research. But when they discover an alien artifact hovering in low orbit of the Sun, the attempt to retrieve it pushes them to the breaking point.

Captain Gordon Markov is more than happy to oversee his final mission on board Icarus. And Doctor Stephen Straub is more than happy to be a part of the prestigious research team assigned to the ship. Testing out the Icarus's new heatshielding is the plan, but the artifact in orbit of the Sun leads Doctor Catherine Tybalt, head of the research team, to press the captain to retrieve the object for further analysis. The interior of the artifact is hollow -- a void -- and should be incinerated, but it's perfectly intact. If they can discover what makes the object naturally resilient to the radiation of the Sun, perhaps it can be used for future development in stardiving. With a risky plan in place, Captain Markov reluctantly agrees. However, the artifact emits a strange radiation that affects not just the operational systems of the ship, but also the crew itself. Once the artifact is on board, research begins, and the scientists discover the terrifying secret of the void...but when they do, the fate of the ship may have already been sealed.

It can be found at Amazon, Smashwords, and Lulu, $2.99 for the ebook or $8.99 for the print version.

I really feel like it's a great time to be a writer. While independent publishing doesn't create the biggest or brightest of spotlights, word-of-mouth is insanely powerful, and when internet readers find something they love, they're a core, loyal set of fandom. It's not easy to self-promote and get an immediate foothold with sales, but it can be done, and I think that when the community of writers/readers comes together to discover new work and not just shill themselves for dollars, we can all benefit from the rewards of such.

Right now chapter one is available while I flesh out the rest of the book, hopefully we will be back come June/july. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321020#Comment_321020Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:05:27 -0600Lawrence RiderI have a comic called Longship coming out from TImebomb Comics sometime in he next year or so. Hopefully I'll be able to post a preview in the next month or so. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321053#Comment_321053Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:56:49 -0600DistractDeludeOther than a couple of stories commissioned by friends as birthday presents I haven't had anything published to -The Public- due to my continued confusion over what distribution channel would best suit me and my own personal ignorance as to how to approach/where to look for outlets in the first place. Basically, I am my own obstacle. The continued search for a regular paying job also consumes most of my time at the moment due to having a family to feed. Still, if anyone has suggestions on good places to start sending shorts too for a bit of exposure/feedback and portfolio love, please feel free to shove me in the right direction as I'm determined to make my writing a main focus for 2012, what with the world ending and everything. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321062#Comment_321062Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:44:12 -0600allana
In the meantime, there's Differencing The Engine, which oddbill and I wrote a while back. There's also an archive of music reviews and some other stuff. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321089#Comment_321089Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:02:42 -0600texture
I write stuff. Last ten years have been (mostly) SF short stories, published free on the web, and slam poetry. I also publish other people's stuff online: I edit Weaponizer. We're soon to publish our second magazine. I also engage in random acts of music journalism for The Skinny and Shallow Rave. Once, I even got to interview Alan Moore.

Working on my first novel (third attempt at one) just now. No plans to tuck a shotgun under my chin in frustration... yet. This Last year I sold my first story, to a small press in the US. The anthology, a collection of positive post-apocalypse stories, can be purchased here.

I'm consistently blown away by the quality of writing by my Whitechapel contemporaries. Have the honour of web-publishing folk like Fauxhammer, City Creed, Cat Vincent and K. Patrick Glover, among many (many) others.... you guys have taught me so much. I basically owe any success I have as a writer to this forum. You inspiring, deranged, beautiful bastards.

Also: Si's novels rock my fucking world. 'Contract' ... is just so... holy fuck! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321141#Comment_321141Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:44:29 -0600Steve ToaseI've been doing magazine work (Freelancing for BSH Custom Bike magazine, reviewing for Fortean Times) for a couple of years now. Started submitted my fiction just over a year ago. Since then I've had a fair few stories published by good folks like texture at Weaponizer, Rachel Kendall at Sein und Werden (Which is well worth checking out), Beautiful Scruffiness and Cafe Irreal. I've also won a couple of prizes, and have a story in the anthology put together by Steevo.

I tend to write stories that are mainly unsettling, whether crime, magical or mythic fiction. I'm working on a series of stories I hope to get published in a chapbook, based around hauntology and bedsits. One of the stories is hereGlockenspiel GirlGlockenspiel Girl 2The next one story will be published by Sein und Werden at the end of the month ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321162#Comment_321162Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:51:26 -0600textureOh hell yes! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321166#Comment_321166Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:59:23 -0600Steve ToaseWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321171#Comment_321171
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321171#Comment_321171Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:15:16 -0600CK BurchWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321172#Comment_321172
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321172#Comment_321172Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:29:39 -0600BeamishWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321198#Comment_321198
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321198#Comment_321198Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:05:36 -0600Steve ToasePub ShortsJoin Helen Cadbury and friends for some grippingnew short stories from Yorkshire writers, and apanel discussion about the future of the e-bookversus print in short story publishing. Writersinclude:A.J. Ashworth, whose debut short story collection,Somewhere Else, or Even Here, won The Scott Prizeand was published by Salt in November 2011.Tony Dew, subsidiary prize winner of the 2010Bridport Short Story Competition, whose memoirRock Ahead - The Autobiography of a RockingHorse Maker is published on Kindle.Steve Toase, whose quick-fire flash fiction gracesseveral online publications.James Wall - a Bridport shortlisted short storywriter from Harrogate.Hosted by Helen Cadbury, winner of the MaltonLiterature Festival Short Story Prize, whose storieshave been broadcast on BBC Radio Four andpublished by Ether Books for iphone and ipad.Venue: Wolfe Room, Black Swan Pub,Peasholme Green£4.00 from York Theatre RoyalBox Office 01904 623568 ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321201#Comment_321201Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:18:24 -0600RenThingAnd a good, classy anthology too. A second one is going to be coming out later this year. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321211#Comment_321211Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:15:14 -0600space scoundrelI've written various speculative short stories. Some of them I'm shopping around, others need some more polishing.

My first published work is a middle grade adventure novel I'm writing under the name M.E. Castle, called Popular Clone. It's set for release on January 24th in the states, available now for preorder on amazon. There's also a website for the book series(there will be more), www.theclonechronicles.com. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321217#Comment_321217Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:35:22 -0600chrisanthropic
Thieves at Heart has started to get some very positive attention. The second in the series will be out in another 2-3 months, she's just finishing up the final edits now. The whole story started as a character bio for an RPG campaign I was running. 3 years later she had thousands of pages of manuscript and she's now working with a professional editor to tidy the whole thing up and release about 4-5 books in the series.

I'm honestly a little surprised at the apparent lack of writers around these parts... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321293#Comment_321293Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:33:25 -0600Ashflex
here and you can find some older stories on MicroHorror here.I'm currently writing a new series of short stories, and I'm slowly working on my first novel, which may get finished one day. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321355#Comment_321355Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:01:06 -0600government spyWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321374#Comment_321374
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321414#Comment_321414Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:10:19 -0600DistractDelude
Storytime with...' posts are a must-read in my house. Besides, you are now obligated to become a famous writer as that line belongs in one of those collected quote books:

I aspire to be a writer, but so far everything's just a work in progress.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321415#Comment_321415Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:21:48 -0600VornaskottiI'm currently working on the second draft of the first novel of my adult age. It did quite well in a local major scifi/fantasy novel competition arranged by a publishing house last summer, but not enough to be in the published top-2. I've written 1,5 novels when I was younger, but they'd require quite a lot of work to be publishable. My aim is to get the draft fit for a publisher rejection slip tour later this year. The story combines low key scifi with magical realism and surrealism.

I'm also working on several interactive fiction projects (read: text adventures), that straddle the divide between game coding and creative writing.

Also, I'll have to say that the magnificent matriphiles of Whitechapel are responsible for rebooting my writing ambitions, this place is the best thing that's happened to my creative antics during my adult age. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321439#Comment_321439Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:16:54 -0600government spyThanks guys, that means a lot. The positive feedback from Whitechapel is one of the main reasons I've kept writing. So much of what I write has been personal, (mostly stories people around me have heard a dozen times or more) and it's been hard to get legitimate feedback from those close by. I'm still writing, though I had slowed down a bit due to traumatic events, I'm back at it, today coincidentally, so thanks for the boot in the pants. I still don't know what I'm doing, but like Alanon, I just keep coming back. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321451#Comment_321451Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:57:15 -0600Ben GwalchmaiBeen a while since I dropped by these parts also as I've been moved out of the reach of high-speed broadband and into the country where I crack open a bottle of red wine everytime a 700meg download is done within 2 hours. The reason for the move is because I'm writing for Welsh National Opera's 9 Stories High project - yup, I'm currently writing opera libretti - and I grew up near the area where the project is so here I am back in the countryside.

I doubt I am the only one but I think I'm the first to write in this discussion that I'm foremost a playwright.

Saying that, I'd love to write comics and had my first idea for a good, original one just last week. All my other drafted comic books have either been terrible or the dream, i.e. writing for Hellblazer.

As it's a new idea, instead of writing that, this year I've started on the novel I've been thinking about & researching for the past 6 months.

When the videos are online for the Welsh National Opera thing, they should be fun so if anyone wants them posted on here, say so. If not, they'll be on my site where you can find what else I've published/produced/edited/made. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321571#Comment_321571Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:43:46 -0600Steve ToaseAbraded Butterflies ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321574#Comment_321574Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:55:57 -0600Brendan McGinley
my site but just got digital distribution with a company I'm not sure I can name yet. I also write Hannibal Goes to Rome over at Shadowline, and I wrote The Man's Book of the BBQ, published in the UK last spring and the US the following September.

These days I'm editing and writing a men's interest site (about to undertake revisions or I'd link you there) while doing some print work for Maxim and a column over at Cracked.

I'm pretty happy. I'm a working writer. Life is good. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321645#Comment_321645Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:02:48 -0600GordonComics-wise I've a few shorts for anthologies coming out this year and my first professionaly-done comic goes to print soon. Will be pimping these like a bastard when it's time! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321786#Comment_321786Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:35:03 -0600Luke
column at Cracked. I also write for three beer magazines (as in real "on dead trees and everything"), and a clutch of other comedy and technology sites. You can a lot of it linked up on my website.

Also have an e-book in progress, and the mandatory working-on-stories-in-the-background. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321788#Comment_321788Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:41:57 -0600StefanJHere is a free one, an adventure for a superhero RPG:http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=87502

A whole page of stuff I've written for Steve Jackson Games. (The second item on that page is another freebie.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321839#Comment_321839Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:04:12 -0600Morac
Out of Place, Out of Time, and not much else, really. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321872#Comment_321872Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:51:50 -0600JEColeMy name is J.E.Cole. My first novel, Frostfeld-The End of The World As You Know It: Book 1 will be in your hands, on your kindle/koob/e-reader by the years end. It will be self published. And don't care how many throats I have to slit or how many sacrifices I have to make in order to get it done. I.WILL.GET.IT.DONE.

Thank you :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=321882#Comment_321882Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:58:57 -0600Brian SchirmerWhite Tower - due from Committed Comics that will ideally see the light of day later this year. It's part of the now ubiquitous team-of-mismatched-occultists-with-near-future-gizmos/abilities-battling-Lovecrafian-nasties books.

Latest project is called Ultrasylvania - alt 19th century Europe with truly monstrous heads of state - and will see me working with about ten different artists. Look for a digital or web release in summer with a TPB in the fall. I plan to share more on this in the months ahead.

I've also authored a comic anthology - Worlds Apart - that's sold quite well at Wondercon, SDCC, and APE.

I've been writing in one medium or another for many years. Prior to entering comics, I made a couple no-budget digital features - that, at this point, I pray no one else ever sees. One turned up on IMDB. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=323534#Comment_323534Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:55:38 -0600Gordon
Indiegogo page to try and get it made.

So (*cough* shameless plug*) if you can, and you like the sound of it, please consider donating. Everyone who donates gets something in return, from the likes of signed DVDs and tickets to the premiere to their own private screening and even being featured in the film. If you can help us, please do.

WEBSITE ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=323570#Comment_323570Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:08:44 -0600emonsterI wrote a biography on Bruiser Brody. He was an outlaw professional wrestler. He was murdered in 1988. HERE is the little website I set up for the book. The publisher's site is HERE.

I wrote and drew a ton of mini comics in the 90's.

Currently, I write for Lioncorn. Not sure if blogs count. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=323621#Comment_323621Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:26:15 -0600SteadyUPThat said, I write a blog about US politics called Why I Enjoy Paying Taxes that's been going strong five days a week since last August, and I have plans for a children's book about the Republican Party. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=323629#Comment_323629Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:17:00 -0600RenThingIs it going to be titled "One Nut, Two Nuts, Young Nuts, Old Nuts"? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=323639#Comment_323639Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:26:53 -0600Nicolas Papa
kind of right, that it's a good time to be a home-cooking writer, but people going through traditional publishing might not agree.

I'm in a slump at the moment - the end of last year got pretty hairy irl, and I think my productivity has taken a hit - but there's a couple of comics written by me with homes - one in Stacey Whittle's imminent "Into The Woods", and another placed with Orangutan's FLT anthology.

One of the reasons I'm in a slump is I'm attempting to pull together a collection (or two) out of my work at Elephant Words - those are all here. It turns out I'm a bit too OCD to pick through the 150+ pieces, but I'm getting there. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=323643#Comment_323643Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:31:22 -0600SteadyUPWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=325668#Comment_325668
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=325668#Comment_325668Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:15:48 -0600GordonHere's the teaser for it:

If you go to its official website you'll find the first ten pages available to read for FREE. So please check it out and, if you like, pick up the whole issue. More importantly, if you could please tell any comics reading friends you have who might like it to check it out I would really appreciate it. I sold my collection of Playstation games to pay the art team - please don't let that painful sacrifice be for nothing. :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=325699#Comment_325699Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:28:51 -0600Will CouperCurrently trying to tout a novel to agents.

http://indigorisinguk.com/ ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=325993#Comment_325993Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:01:06 -0600DistractDelude
Obsidian in the first issue of the UK edition, so thanks for that. I'm currently hunting down her various shorts and marvelling at the fact she doesn't have a website of her own. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=325995#Comment_325995Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:24:40 -0600Steve ToaseI've got to say I sort of fell into editing for Indigo Rising, but it's given me a real insight into what works and what doesn't. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=326020#Comment_326020Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:34:19 -0600Ben Gwalchmaihttp://100wordplays.com/ ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=326048#Comment_326048Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:30:32 -0600Steve Toase ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=326060#Comment_326060Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:54:01 -0600DistractDelude@ Ben Gwalchmai - Thanks for this, I'd completely forgotten this was happening and would have missed out if it wasn't for your reminder. I've just submitted two pieces with comedic twists, which is rather unusual for me. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=326381#Comment_326381Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:00:46 -0600Steve ToaseAlso completed the first draft edit on my current short story. It's the first time I've printed out and pencil edited, but it has helped a lot, giving me a bit of clarity and overview I don't always get when I read off the screen. A very successful morning! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=326505#Comment_326505Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:48:49 -0500Winterman1) BETTER ANGELS, a crime novel set in a fictional US city, being given away, gratis, as part of an Amazon promo. Said promo to end tomorrow (monday) AM.

It's the first of four novels set in the fictional city of Gray Harbor. As people often enjoy free things, I felt it was okay to mention.

2) ASHCANS - this is sort of the DVD extras to the graphic trade paperback my partner and I put out last month. It's part bio, part how-to, part awesome sequential art. Not free, but by no means expensive.

Amazon ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=330697#Comment_330697Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:42:13 -0500themanfromHADESI put this up as a seperate thread being one of FNGs (fucking new guys), so excuse my befuddled-ness.

Here's a link to a series of Surreal/Comic/Noir-influenced stories I've been working on for a while, for your delectation/laceration.

If you dig (daddy-o), I'd be happy to send you a free copy of the ebook (epub, .mobi, pdf) novella "And The Street Screamed Blue Murder" where the idea/characters originated from. I've published it through my own PULP METAL FICTION & I'd like to see what "non-locals", i.e. people outside of my circle of literary miscreants, think of it.You can send me an email from the Contact address on the OLD LURK site and I'll be as quick as a speeding sloth.

Here's a wee cheapy video for the book:

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=331697#Comment_331697Mon, 14 May 2012 03:17:22 -0500Steve Toase
I've decided to knuckle down and get my novel written. Up until now it's been an idea that I've played with in a couple of short stories. So last week I worked out how many words I need to nail a day to get 10,000 words out a week (About 1400). So this week has been habit building, and it seems to be paying off. I'm now 10,000 words further on than I was last week. I know that I'm going to have to slice through the draft like a psychotic barber, but that suits me just fine.

In other news my short story The Fibril Prosthetic is up at Inky Squib and one of my shorts from last year, 'Branch', has been selected from a longlist of 200 as one of the top 50 very short fictions by Wigleaf ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=331876#Comment_331876Tue, 15 May 2012 22:54:32 -0500ales kot
This is my website.

This is how I look when I run around Los Angeles:

I made a comic with Riley Rossmo (Dark Wolverine, Cowboy Ninja Viking, Green Wake) and I'm working on a few more with people like Ryan Sook, Ben Templesmith, Tyler Crook and so on. I hope that these gentlemen's willingness to work with me somehow means that maybe I know how to do this, at least partially. I'm doing my best to make comics that will be unlike anything else you've seen or read before.

The comic I made with Riley Rossmo, WILD CHILDREN, is coming out in July 2012 via Image Comics.

Besides WILD CHILDREN, 2012 will also hopefully bring some short comics fiction by me and Ryan Sook (a short BATMAN story for DC's digital initiative), a short story for OCCUPY COMICS with Tyler Crook (Petrograd, B.P.R.D.), and two more creator-owned things, both mini-series, one of them a very strange slasher, the other a SF action thriller. And this thing with Templesmith I can't talk about. And hopefully more.

I'm also co-creator and artist on a highly unusual comic called PUNKS, which you can read for free over at MTV. This one is done entirely in traditional photo collage using an old photocopier, X-Acto blade, and scotch tape. Fun stuff.

I have an all-new crime comic in production, I'll probably show it around to publishers just before San Diego Comic-Con. There's also a slim chance I'll self publish as a digital original. Some decisions to make on this one.

(I've also got a nice little earner doing an anonymous A-Z of Cannabis Terms for a noted Dutch seed company...)

And I still occasionally blog at my own joint & write more at Twitter than anywhere else - @catvincent, of course.

Future plans include the second Slenderman piece for Darklore 7, a possible collection of my articles on practical occultism known as Guttershaman... and who knows?

I wouldn't have dared to try my hand as a professional writer were it not for the support and nurturing of young artists & creators here - so thank you, one and all. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=332785#Comment_332785Tue, 29 May 2012 11:47:14 -0500Gordon
website. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=334550#Comment_334550Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:15:29 -0500DistractDelude
Indigo Rising UK, which is part-edited by our very own, Mr Toase who also has several pieces in the latest issue. It can be viewed/downloaded as a PDF, googledoc, or in Kindle format from their website, here.

I also have another short story, The Lodge in the second issue of, The Curiosity Cabinet, which is linked to in this post from my blog. I also put up a bit of background info and a personal critique of my stories featured in, Indigo Rising in this blog post.

I am on the bird song network as, @distractdelude. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=334601#Comment_334601Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:07:03 -0500FauxhammerThis is my goddamn year. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=334690#Comment_334690Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:20:04 -0500LordGanja
I've been writing comdey sketches and short stuff for ages but never did anything with it until now.Pulled together my stuff and published it on Amazon 2 months and it's been doing pretty good.The first is a blog-style teenage fantasy set in Stoke and the second is a series of interlinked comedy sketches copiously illustrated parodying the superhero world.I'm now working on a second volume of Sex & Spandex - writing is finished and illustrations underway, hope to get it out by August.Check my website here with loads of information and artwork: Zenkim Media

Colin Thorson Teenage SuperheroCover Illustrator: Ash CollinsDescription:Colin, a troubled teenager living in the North of England, is having nightmares of a talking crow with a startling revelation.Read his story as he struggles with his problems; Can Colin save his girlfriend from the Evil One, become the first superhero of Stoke and get his homework done or is he merely delusional?

Sex & Spandex : The Secret Lives of SuperheroesIllustrator: Werner MueckDescription:A Comic Parody of Cosmic Proportions. Monty Python meets Marvel in the ultimate mash-up.A series of sketches about superheroes and supervillains, their secret lives and their not-so secret desires.Featuring The Avengers in downtime and on stage, the Cosmic Nagging Housewives, the Silver Surfer searching for his board, the outrageous Sex Ed. @Mutie High and the infamous X-tasy Nightclub with the X-men living up to their name!

The two main characters are Mrs Galactus and Mrs Darkseid - loosely based on the great Les Dawson & Roy Barraclough as Cissy and Ada. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=334719#Comment_334719Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:30:50 -0500DonburiBoyI did some ambient scriptwriting for the forthcoming Square-Enix/United Front Games open world Hong Kong action game called "Sleeping Dogs" (formerly True Crime: Hong Kong.) I don't know what, if anything made it into the final game, or if my name's in the credits, but it's a personal milestone for me because it was the first paid writing gig, and it's just nice to see it get released.

I contributed writing to some web series for friends of mine. I did punch-up writing for one called "Pretty in Geek" about a group of girl gamers, whose D&D game gets crashed by a LARPer. And I wrote a few episodes for another called "The Gate" which is a sketch-y type one about St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, and the shit he has to deal with. Again, for both, I don't know what's made it to the final, filmed projects, and I don't even know if they're released yet.

Had a bunch of things almost happen then get cancelled, as it goes. Got a few other things on the go, but can't talk about them yet. When I can talk about things, I talk about them here: http://jamesnadiger.com ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=335231#Comment_335231Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:29:57 -0500Richard Kadrey
Unofficial stuff will probably pop up so stay tuned. I hope to see some of you there.

Sunday 1pm Beckham Room The Big 6 and Traditional Press's Place in Today's Publishing World ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=335770#Comment_335770Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:39:56 -0500BryanSwan
The Chrysalis Falls Vigilant. The Vigilant is a sprawling mutli-series serial that's urban fantasy plus dystopian metropolis. Two collections of stories are available on Amazon. The Kindle e-books are $0.99 and the paperbacks are $6.99.

I have a couple other series I'm currently writing with no particular date on when they'll go live. I'm also working on a radio play that may or may not go anywhere but it's fun work while it lasts. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=336066#Comment_336066Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:50:10 -0500Joe B
Gambit of Shadows and it's available on Kindle as well. It's a modern fantasy, first of a series. I've got a science fiction story that's in the plotting stages too. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=336240#Comment_336240Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:48:27 -0500ales kot

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=337592#Comment_337592Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:26:17 -0500RenThing
Kickstarter? Dagan Books is a great company producing quality books, please pledge some money and help out. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=337653#Comment_337653Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:29:21 -0500Vornaskotti
eep! :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=338127#Comment_338127Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:24:20 -0500moali
NOWWWWW ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=338256#Comment_338256Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:39:44 -0500QuisitrixWoo Hoo. I actually said it. Anyway right now I'm writing a serial novel and publishing it as a blog. The current story is a murder mystery in which my fictional alter ego investigates the locked room murder of the most unpopular woman in Aberdeen. This story fits into a series of Novel's I've written but never had the courage to do anything with. Seriously I've got two completed novels and one completed first draft and a couple more at the research stage but I've not even sent anything to an agent.

The link goes to the first part of the current story, rather than to the front page of the blog. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=338443#Comment_338443Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:14:25 -0500an unhealthy shineWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339232#Comment_339232
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339232#Comment_339232Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:44:48 -0500Steve ToaseSpark ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339239#Comment_339239Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:29:38 -0500RenThingWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339247#Comment_339247
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339247#Comment_339247Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:25:34 -0500QuisitrixWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339248#Comment_339248
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339248#Comment_339248Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:52:57 -0500Steve Toase@RenThing Congrats! Look forward to your announcement! Still get a buzz off seeing my work published. Quite an addictive feeling ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339254#Comment_339254Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:12:04 -0500RenThingIsn't it just? This is the first publication since I sold a short to an invite-only anthology last year (a month after my son was born, that was a very weird time) and this was the first story I've submitted in 2012 so it feels good to make the sale. Still waiting to hear about another short I have out. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339255#Comment_339255Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:17:10 -0500Steve ToaseWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339256#Comment_339256
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339256#Comment_339256Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:39:13 -0500RenThing
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=339263#Comment_339263Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:25:57 -0500mjmartinejohn
ncredible art and a killer superhero story. And a pitch that I have in the can. That takes up most of my time though, just shilling on and on and on. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=340029#Comment_340029Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:53:31 -0500WintermanHere's a little background:

In the future the world is dominated by gigantic mega corporations that rule the markets like high tech feudal kingdoms. The only protection humanity has against the whims and machinations of the Megas is the Human/Corporate Advocacy, the HCA.

Of the HCA's many agents, Tim Cross is one of the best. Smart, shrewd, incisive, he's a man cut from a cloth woven in a bygone era- an old-school private dick forced to live in a pristine, almost antiseptic future.

When the teenaged murder suspect Cross has been assigned to protect turns out to be more than anybody expected, what follows is a high-speed, high casualty race to solve the mystery of the girl before the powerful forces out to kill her get their wish.

You can find out more and get access to the preview by checking in HERE

After the preview begins there will be regular updates, including art, character breakdowns, quotes from the series and more.

What is a serial novel? Well, in this case it's like a monthly TV series with each chapter being like an episode. There's mystery, action, scifi, politics a TINY amount of sex and all for 99c a pop, beginning in October.

And dirty. Oh my god, it got dirty quick. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=343698#Comment_343698Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:46:24 -0600textureWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=343930#Comment_343930
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=343930#Comment_343930Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:08:02 -0600FauxhammerWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=344004#Comment_344004
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=344004#Comment_344004Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:32:53 -0600OddcultSome old scripts I did that never got drawn. I occasionally get asked about these, so here's what's there. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=344037#Comment_344037Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:35:44 -0600FauxhammerThis is right. This is proper. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=344100#Comment_344100Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:52:46 -0600textureAlso typed THE END on my novel, so that's the first draft done after 12 months of work. The funny side of all this is I'm going to be so goddamn busy now, I may as well hook up an IV drip from the internet into my veins. But as anyone who knows me will testify, I love to be busy. Looking forward to another year flashing past in this hyperactive, pell-mell dash towards the grave they call LIFE.

And - for anyone who might be interested - the book is currently up at Things From Another World. Should be up on Amazon soon enough. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=344422#Comment_344422Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:05:07 -0600Puck

I published a collection of writings I've done for various websites magazines etc. Pretty much clearing the decks for the BIG WRITING THING I've nearly finished and a smaller more personal extended essay about burning sigil's into the city with my feet.

cue shilling -

Five years of foul mouth observation and booze fuelled nihilism – A collection of a confused man trying to find meaning in a world I abandoned as rational a long time before.

The best of a full half a decade of blog posts, magazine articles, interviews reviews and columns. Guttermouth is a meaty 47,ooo word e-book, a resignation letter to reality, and possibly future evidence for the prosecution.

There is something inherently arrogant about trying to sell a compilation of your work.

FEATURES!

- The finest PICKINGS from edgetrinkets.com- ARTICLES originally from Area and Fused magazines- My CONTROVERSIAL column from Birmingham: It’s Not Shit- Other random SHIT I found on my hard drive.

Yesterday I got offered a contract for my horror-historical novel and today I accepted the offer!

It took me about 2 years to research and 9months to write but damn does it now feel worth it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=345779#Comment_345779Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:59:23 -0600oldhatNot planning on making it a definitive guide by any means, but I want it to be short, sweet and get other people on the road to appreciating beer better and looking deeper in to it if they want.

Getting a netbook today so I can write in the pub (something I've wanted for site business and travel things anyways).

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=345806#Comment_345806Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:03:01 -0600Ben Gwalchmai
I could detail more in an email but your .co.uk site's down at the mo so couldn't find a contact and I didn't want to go straight to LinkedIn as it feels like a place where you should have already done something, or at least met, in order to be connected.

If you're interested to hear more and think your reviews editor might be, drop by http://bengwalchmai.com and pop me an email.Thanks, man.

Don't know if I said this explicitly but HUGE congratulations on to you on working for Fortean, that must be an intriguing job.

I'm sending off my revised 2nd draft novel to an agent this week. Fingers X'd. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346005#Comment_346005Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:27:47 -0600Ben GwalchmaiThe timescale is that it should be available in roughly 3/4 months time. Pretty quick, I think. I'll be sure to post more when I know. I'm thinking I'll blog the research I did that I didn't use in the run up to it so I'll be sure to gross you all out with some of that weird shit.

Good luck with the agents. I've found that they tend to take an age to respond. So far, I've had no luck - I even got a one sentence 'no' reply the other week for the book that's now getting published. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346096#Comment_346096Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:20:35 -0600Strangities
STRANGITIES.com as a way to practice writing the only form of fiction I know how to - weird. I've since released one collection of short stories, "STRANGITIES: Volume I" in paperback and ebook with a second just about complete. I'm also a month or two away from releasing my first novella, "The Cold Year Of Creation." (Here's a teaser trailer.) A reader suggested I should join the community of Whitechapel as a way to meet like-minded individuals. So here I am. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346185#Comment_346185Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:21:19 -0600Brian SchirmerWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346215#Comment_346215
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346215#Comment_346215Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:01:20 -0600Ben GwalchmaiWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346266#Comment_346266
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346266#Comment_346266Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:04:17 -0600Alan TysonI've started serializing my novel, The Last Suburb, on a dedicated Tumblr. I plan on getting a personal website up and running before too long, but I have just enough followers on Tumblr that it made sense to start there and see if I can build up a bit of readership. Whitechapel (without which a good chunk of this novel may not exist, for a variety of reasons) will also, naturally, get first crack at it. Because you're all awesome.

The novel itself has quite a lot (some might say too much already) written, at over 500 pages, but I'll be uploading one scene, between two and eight pages, once per day, until the book is finished. I suppose it works a bit less like a classic serialized novel, more like a daily webcomic, or a TV series.

I've got the first scene up and running now, plus an introduction and an epigraph page, so if you want something short to read, I would be more than happy to provide that. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=346332#Comment_346332Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:28:07 -0600FrankWill take a day or two. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=347142#Comment_347142Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:02:09 -0600Steve Toase
either Arcane II at Smashwords or Arcane II at Amazon UK ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=347466#Comment_347466Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:34:04 -0600Scott Gable
The Hole Behind Midnight. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=347935#Comment_347935Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:24:06 -0600John SkylarIt's wonderful to see what you're all doing.

I'm in Fusion Fragment this quarter, and next month in a little startup mag called Old Hedgy Times, which just dropped its first issue (recommended especially if you like chiptunes), and then another thing in March that's still a shhh moment. I might be joining Old Hedgy as a staff writer, also.

If anybody's interested in collaborating or publishing with Old Hedgy, I'm reachable by email and might be able to pull some strings. They pay. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=349322#Comment_349322Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:16:11 -0600Steve Toase
My short story, Chicken Skin Gloves, has just been published by Liquid Imagination. What's interesting for me is that they've also recorded an audio version. The recording is the first time I've heard someone I've never met narrate my work. Very pleased with how it turned out.Chicken Skin Gloves

One of my other hats is as flash fiction editor for a magazine called Indigo Rising UK, our third issue is out, with a good mix of poetry, fiction and flash. There is some really good work from first time published writers.Indigo Rising UK ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=350624#Comment_350624Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:10:25 -0500whydoisayGolden Gate Riot ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=350638#Comment_350638Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:01:35 -0500RenThing
Gears & Growls anthology. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=350652#Comment_350652Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:50:08 -0500Ben GwalchmaiCongrats on the comic! I'll look forward to hearing more.

On my front: the novel publication date got pushed back a little to avoid something or other, they tells me. Still out this year, I'm still happy.

Got some funding to do a new start-uppery writing thing so cracking on with that.

Congrats to all on contracts and entries and further writings.A hell of a year so far. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=350667#Comment_350667Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:17:05 -0500whydoisayWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=350830#Comment_350830
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=350830#Comment_350830Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:33:57 -0500Ben GwalchmaiI'm just eager for my book to come out :)When it gets pushed back a little, I feel like momentum is put aside awhile when I'm attempting to push ever onward.

New stuff up here too, with the final versions of the cover going up today and tomorrow. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=354909#Comment_354909Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:26:33 -0500John Skylar
Aoife's Kiss mag, but it's taking forever to get my contributor's copy.

Then Bruce Bethke took one of my stories for an upcoming Stupefying Stories! release, something about Weird Westerns. Slated for the end of the month. I really love what Bruce is doing with that magazine, I recommend it a lot to everyone as a venue. He's a real "writers' writer," and very responsive/respectful of even those he is rejecting.

An antho called The Future Embodied took a piece of mine, though I have no idea what their publication schedule is all about.

And then Old Timey Hedgehog is putting out an anthology of my stuff. I totally don't deserve to have my stuff collected yet, but they wanted to, so...yay! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=354930#Comment_354930Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:12:41 -0500Jason A. QuestAnything That Loves, an anthology of comix about the B and T in LGBT, published by Northwest Press, to be released next week at SDCC. Not the first story I've had accepted by a publisher, but this is the first one to actually make it to paper. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355119#Comment_355119Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:23:45 -0500oldhat

This is page one of about three, which has the basic basic stuff that almost every book has, but is still important to put in (especially since this one is for beginners). Other chapters will include a beer fest survival guide, dispelling some myths, cooking with beer, and many other practical tips for a person who doesn't want to read a 300 page book full of lingo. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355126#Comment_355126Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:51:06 -0500John SkylarWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355230#Comment_355230
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355230#Comment_355230Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:01:47 -0500sabirpirzadaI've got a comic coming out with Arcana comics at SDCC Booth #2415. I'm doing a signing on sunday from 11:30-12:30 so come and say hi if you're around.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355300#Comment_355300Sun, 21 Jul 2013 03:42:13 -0500texture
Writers' Bloc at the Edinburgh Book Festival, in a collaboration with musicians Poppy Ackroyd & John Lemke. If anyone's about, come along it's going to be an incredible show. Details here. I'll be about throught the Bookfest as a journo scumbag, so if you're in town, look me up. I'm also competing in the BBC Poetry Slam on 13 Aug against the likes of Liz Lochead and a selection of the country's finest spoken word artists. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355308#Comment_355308Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:49:29 -0500icelandbobWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355324#Comment_355324
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355324#Comment_355324Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:22:11 -0500VornaskottiI'm slowly starting to realize it that this is finally happening. So many times it's been yanked away that I'm slow to trust things are going somewhere, but barring a meteor strike or a zombie holocaust... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355380#Comment_355380Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:28:05 -0500an unhealthy shine
this among other things

It's called 'Towards a Novel' and so far at the end of day two it's been really useful, the man knows how to cut the crap away from your writing. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355463#Comment_355463Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:42:35 -0500an unhealthy shineWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355467#Comment_355467
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355467#Comment_355467Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:15:35 -0500RenThing
Cthulhurotica) is hosting a four-week, online writing workshop on micro and small fiction writing and editing. Info here. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355513#Comment_355513Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:14:55 -0500John SkylarWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355683#Comment_355683
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=355683#Comment_355683Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:22:54 -0500Steve Toase
It's been busy on the writing front. The big news is myself and a photographer friend, Lucy Carolan, won the commission for this project Runs On The Board which has meant I can focus completely on writing over the whole of the summer.

I've also had a story accepted for Napkin Stories, which is one of one ideas you read about and wonder why it isn't happening everywhere. Basically thirty stories, 300 words each, will be put on to napkins and left in cafes for people to read while they have a drink. This year the project is running in Leeds, Brisbane and Toronto. There's some more info Napkin Stories

Then finally my website has had a lick of paint. There are a couple of things to finish, but in the meantime I'm currently adding content, including some full stories no longer available online www.stevetoase.co.uk ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=356625#Comment_356625Wed, 14 Aug 2013 07:36:47 -0500FauxhammerFeels good, man ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=356628#Comment_356628Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:40:12 -0500RenThing
why we need violent stories. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=356633#Comment_356633Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:48:07 -0500BeamishWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=356648#Comment_356648
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=356648#Comment_356648Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:33:38 -0500costa_kI've written two e-books, short story collections. One is called RUNNING THE TRAIN AND OTHER STORIES, featuring my private eye/bail bondsman character Ben Miles. The other is called A FLASH OF DOOM, about Victorian-era supernatural detective Sir Ian Quarry. Both are e-books available via Smashwords right here.

I also serialized short fiction, two ongoing free monthly online novellas, THE FOLLOWER and BLACK INK. One is also a Ben Miles-related story. Periodically I do short one-offs here, as well. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=356991#Comment_356991Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:02:45 -0500John SkylarIt's a cool anthology, from Bruce Bethke's Stupefying Stories line, and is called WILD WEIRD WEST. I'd love to be there to see what they do with it and meet some of the other authors in the book (they seem really cool!). Just not sure I'd have anything else to do.

But if any other Whitechapel writerfolk are going...? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=357471#Comment_357471Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:54:53 -0500Ben GwalchmaiBeen a while, Whitechapel. A hella while. Damn fine to see all the progress going on - @oldhat, when you've written it and you're doing a launch tour, you should make a challenge that if anyone can bring a homebrew better than yours to the show then they get a free book! Or somesuch thing that involves lots of drinking, yes?

Good news: Purefinder has a publication date and an ISBN!December 13th: 978 1 78279 098 [yet to be put on Amazon, I'm afraid, but I'm told that happens in October.]

Also, off the back of a real world games company reading that, I'm writing an adventure for a castle!

In order to develop interest in the book, I'll be writing a HuffPostUK blog every week [the 1st of which is here] so give it a read.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358146#Comment_358146Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:46:34 -0500EberhornSo, about me, struggling writer, mostly movie and TV stuff for Germany, but I dabble in "Ze Eeenglish" with a blog, and now, well, I guess you can call it a webcomic. If you're being nice about it. It's short little cartoonish stories about ... tea. Told by Mr. T. Mr. T in a tea-cup. And he's talking about tea. Any kind of tea English has to offer - going by the dictionary - like Abduc-Tea, Abili-Tea, you get what I'm getting at.

Anyways, here's a link to the Blogpost where I have and will collect all of these I do, with how I got to it, and so on. The stories are at the bottom, but you should read the whole thing (It's pretty short, anyways...): The things I do to tell a story...

Furthermore, if you are interested, there's a "Fan-Fiction Firefly Alternate Reality" story set in World War II here: Fireflies of World War II

Cheers, all ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358212#Comment_358212Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:36:15 -0500textureI just finished my 4th and hopefully final (until I get an editor anyway) draft of the crime novel I've been writing for 2 years, on and off. Going out to a few beta readers, then a final pass, then off to an agent who has asked to see it. Feeling pretty good about it, the printer is chugging away in the background now. This is the one for which an earlier draft of the opening chapters got shortlisted for the CWA debut novel prize last year. That, along with a few other bits and bobs, will hopefully strengthen my case for signing with an agent. Fingers crossed.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358221#Comment_358221Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:52:54 -0500John SkylarWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358226#Comment_358226
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358226#Comment_358226Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:27:37 -0500Steve Toase
@Janos Nice one! let us know when you get it into English. I've forwarded the link to some Finnish friends of mine.@Eberhorn whereabouts in Germany are you? We spend a fair bit of time in Munich. Loads of stuff going on there.@John Skylar. Having lived in several tourist towns I sympathise. In York the buses disgorge on the narrowest stretch of pavement and people look confused when you try and get through.

I've just completed, and been paid for, my first writing commission. I've been working with a photographer on a celebration of over 50s cricket in Yorkshire, my home county. Coming at it as someone who knows more about pinball than cricket balls was interesting. I was able to look for the oddness in the game, and particularly the rules. There's a sample here, along with one of Lucy's photos.

The first exhibition of the work is on Sunday, and there should be a book to follow.

I've also got a piece of work in the napkin stories project, so in October my story Around The Door will be in cafes in Brisbane, Toronto and Leeds.

And finally one of the editors I know, Katie Metcalfe, asked me to contribute a piece on my notebook (which is a huge leather-bound, greenman engraved, offensive weapon of a thing) to her new venture Big Eyes, so I did. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358230#Comment_358230Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:47:13 -0500textureWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358372#Comment_358372
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358372#Comment_358372Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:21:57 -0500Ben GwalchmaiYou talented bastards make me want to grab a penguin, dip it in nitrogen, and use it to beat the servers this forum is hosted on to a bloody death Linux-apt death.After that, I'd send you the remains as a trophy.You earned it.

It's trashy and terrible as fuck and I really enjoyed writing it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358565#Comment_358565Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:32:47 -0500allana
Also an academic book review of mine will go live sometime next month. Still polishing it up - by which I mean it's supposed to be 450 words and currently I'm at 1200. What can I say? It's a really shitty book. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358594#Comment_358594Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:54:19 -0500Ben Gwalchmai
XZ1 which I was commissioned to write the last chapter in.

@allana - all writing's writing, you ask me. Congrats! Good luck too on shortening that scathing 1200 words, sounds like a big scythe is needed [both for your words and for their heads ;)]. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358686#Comment_358686Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:21:07 -0500oldhatWrote some more because I was in a bad mood. It helped get me out of it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358790#Comment_358790Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:44:43 -0500Littlepurplegoth
http://echoesanddust.com Pretty happy with them (although I do wish that my editor had taken a blue pencil to my latest piece as reading it back, you can tell it was written on a lot of coffee and only a couple of hours sleep and a brain full of electronics and code and not purely the music (red face)(oops).

This is the time of concerted portfolio building, because I am really in need of sorting myself some new markets so I can, cough, benefit from the new face thing again... (sooooo skint, but still haven't found my pitch mojo and no one will give me feedback on why not!) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358794#Comment_358794Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:29:23 -0500Steve ToaseRuns On The Board ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=358831#Comment_358831Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:34:32 -0500MartinSheenI was wondering if any writers out here would let me place their written creative prose on my soon to be completed website. I cant pay, im not doing it for money, but can offer (what I hope to be) plenty of exposure. Ill credit all work properly, ill be completely transparent, and adhere to whatever other stipulations, no matter how odd or paranoid, you may have to feel warm and cosy. Its about the art.. What is there to lose... Its about the art. Message me on whitechapel.. And excuse any typos im attempting to crash this plane by using my phone online... Its okay though these drones sitting around me ready to go:) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=359056#Comment_359056Wed, 09 Oct 2013 01:56:05 -0500textureWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=359225#Comment_359225
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=359225#Comment_359225Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:39:58 -0500Ben Gwalchmai
Blasted Books. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=361019#Comment_361019Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:20:46 -0600allana
I'm resurrecting this thread to ask about people's experiences with Scrivener. I'll scour the rest of WC, too, but maybe you guys have advice, tips, tricks I should know about?I officially started Super Huge Writing Project yesterday and am feeling pretty good about the interface, but I'd hate for there to be something I'm missing. It's a multi-part academic thing (either a series of articles or a book, we'll see what happens at the 40,000-word mark) so there's lots of research and citations and stuff. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=361050#Comment_361050Mon, 16 Dec 2013 05:16:10 -0600Ben GwalchmaiI don't use it myself but that's only because every time I've considered buying it, I've been too poor to.

{EditedToAdd: Purefinder came out on Friday!} ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=361061#Comment_361061Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:19:15 -0600Steve ToaseI spent this summer working on a comission with photographer Lucy Carolan. Our work, along with that of the other artistic team, is published in a really nice format book.

http://www.runsontheboard.co.uk/the-book/ ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=361063#Comment_361063Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:52:40 -0600Fauxhammer
dick for months. Stress and all that. I'm focusing all my energies into the novel and the second ebook anthology. I will beat 2014 until it is better than this year.

My current to-do's are the other online novella BLACK INK, and a mixed comic/illo/prose anthology book called WHERE YOU BELONG.

After that the plan is maybe a full-length manuscript to shop around, and if I can afford/bother, another comic project. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=361256#Comment_361256Mon, 23 Dec 2013 06:19:56 -0600LittlepurplegothOnly downside is the nerves, that it was extremely hard work (even though not anything like as technical as the sort of thing that they usually publish!), and it made me wish for going to do a masters/phd all over again (which isn't going to happen as its hard enough to sell the odd piece and the likelihood of my raising £30K for postgrad study is... well, never going to happen )

I'm hoping that it will act as a 'way in' to a new tech group and different sorts of writing though...

""Call Out," by Steve Toase, another favorite. A country vet in Yorkshire is called out late at night to tend to a farmer's cow and newborn calf. According to the farmer, the cow had been "cooked" from the inside out after giving birth to her calf, and the "birth waters" had "scorched the floor stone-white clean." Let's just put it this way -- the vet probably should have stayed home. It's another that is wrecked in the telling, so I'll just mention after I read this story I had to put some time and space between myself and this book, especially since I read this story around 2 a.m. all alone in the house."

MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF WORDS ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366036#Comment_366036Sun, 15 Jun 2014 07:49:57 -0500Steve ToaseWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366037#Comment_366037
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366037#Comment_366037Sun, 15 Jun 2014 08:00:14 -0500FauxhammerWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366039#Comment_366039
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366039#Comment_366039Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:13:46 -0500texture
Iain Laurie of And Then Emily Was Gone fame, which we should all be reading. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366183#Comment_366183Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:55:07 -0500Cat Vincent
Fortean Times? Which is nice. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366184#Comment_366184Sun, 22 Jun 2014 12:54:21 -0500Steve ToaseWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366207#Comment_366207
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366207#Comment_366207Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:22:51 -0500atavistianTrying to catch back up with WC and arriving in time to see some great accomplishments. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366212#Comment_366212Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:43:14 -0500Mild Maynyrd
fingers > keys > paper (I have a typewriter). I'm not sure what would come out of me now, as I have changed some since I last wrote a good amount of content. Althogh, I never really knew what it was I did to begin with. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366380#Comment_366380Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:06:48 -0500textureWriters, Sound Off.http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366411#Comment_366411
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366411#Comment_366411Mon, 07 Jul 2014 03:27:05 -0500moali
http://www.futurequake.co.uk/shop.phpand details of all stories in the issue: http://futurequakepress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/futurequake-25.html ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366466#Comment_366466Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:21:55 -0500steevoI'm still working on a book of my own short stories. And a novel. And another novel. And a comic script. And a book of poetry. I'm in the 10-45% range on all of them. Why must I try to do everything I think of? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366569#Comment_366569Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:21:14 -0500allanaI can't tell if this is bad editing (and if I should offer some gentle suggestions on how to be a better editor) or if they're trying to say something more like "hey, we don't really want to work with you, but, welp."

I've written for them before, on another section of the site, and had a not-great experience (they thought my review was "harsh." I thought I justified my negative reactions intelligently. They didn't invite me back after it was published).

I'm halfway through a snarky response into a text file, thinking of whether any of the questions I have are 1) worth asking / 2) salvageable in a constructive form.

I worked as an editor. I was a good editor. My writers liked me. Is editing really that hard? Do you all have a bad time with editors? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=366608#Comment_366608Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:16:13 -0500Cat Vincent
Fortean Times issue with my Slenderman article as cover feature. Out to subscribers now, on the shelves later this week.

Feel like I levelled up, right there. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=367569#Comment_367569Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:33:17 -0500Cat VincentLatest edition of the Fortean journal Darklore (vol. 8) has my "Believing In Fiction: The Rise Of Hyperreal Religion" - and you can read it free here.(Though if you can afford the book, get it 'cos it's got some great stuff in there.)(And I need the royalties.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10438&Focus=368652#Comment_368652Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:03:33 -0600Steve ToaseReally excited to be the lead artist on this project. I'll give you more details as the project develops. ]]>